Price-tag holder



V I H. w. BEHRENS.

PRICE TAG H01.

APPLICATION FILED SEP man. i T. 3, I918- Patented May 25, 1920.

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HENRY W. BEHRENS, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

PRICE-TAG- HOLDER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented May 25, 1920.

Application filed September 3, 1918. Serial No. 252,460.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HENRY W. BEHRENS, a citizen of the United States,residing at Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in Price-Tag Holders, ofwhich the following is a specification.

This invention relates to tag holders, and more particularly to pricetag holders for shelves.

The main object of the invention is to provide simple and etlicientdevices of this character which are cheap to manufacture and may bequickly applied and removed without in any way Inarring the shelf orother support to which it is attached.

Another object is to provide holders of this character constructed sothat the tags may be easily inserted and removed without disturbing theholder.

With the foregoing and other objects in view, which will appear as thedescription proceeds, the invention resides in the combination andarrangement of parts and in the details of construction hereinafterdescribed and claimed, it being understood that changes in the preciseembodiment of the invention herein disclosed may be made within thescope of what is claimed without departing from the spirit of theinvention.

In the accompanying drawings 1- Figure 1 represents a front elevation ofa portion of a shelf showing one form of this improved tag holderapplied,

Fig. 2 is a transverse vertical section taken on the line 2-2 of Fig. 1,

Fig. 3 is a horizontal section taken on the line 3-3 of Fig. 1.

In the embodiment illustrated, the holder constituting this inventioncomprises a tag receiver in the form of a plate 1 having in turnedflanges 2 at its opposite ends spaced from the body of the plate asufiicient distance to permit the easy insertion and removal of a tag T.The lower edge of this plate is provided with longitudinally spacedforwardly extending lugs 3, which project a sufiicient distance tosupport the lower edge of the tag T and yet not be visible when viewedfrom the front.

Extending rearwardly from plate 1 are two shelf engaging elements 41 and5 in the form of tongues which are designed to be engaged with theopposed faces of the shelf S and clamp the holder in operative position.The upper element 1 is in the form of a plate and extends at rightangles from plate 1, being rectilinear throughout its length, while thelower element 5 is also in the form of a plate, but is curved in imrdlylongitudinally with its free end flared as shown clearly in Fig. 2 toadapt it to clamp the shelf and provide for its attachment to shelves ofvarying widths.

The foregoing description and the drawings have reference to what may beconsidered the preferred or approved form of my invention. It is to beunderstood that I may make such changes in construction and arrangementand combination of parts, materials, dimensions, etc, as may proveexpedient and fall within the scope of the claimed invention.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new and desireto secure by Letters Patent, is

A tag holder comprising a metal plate having tongues extended rearwardlyfrom its side edges to form support engaging clips, one of said tonguesbeing flat and extended at right-angles to the plate and the other beingbent out at a slight angle to enable the device to be readily secured toshelves of varying thickness, the front face of said plate having tagretaining means.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

HENRY W. BEHRENS.

Witnesses:

FREDK E. Sronzn, W. F. DRYDEN.

